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SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper TONAL UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SEIIVICE i i j j " 1 i -t I . i The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 1881 f'u tilishf pemi-wpfkly. Mnnriavs arid Thurs days, h T M;iin Strft-t. 1 'la t imou th. ( a.-.- ("minty. NVliraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor O. C. Osterholm. Plant Superintendent HAROLD TUCKER. . .Advertising Manager Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor JpssociPTion I - - .aft AW NATIONAL BDITOMAl ASSOOATIOtr SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Rlatts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Hntprfd at tl.- J'nstoff lre at Plattsmouth. Nt-l.iaska as scennd class mail matter in a c r.iri'an'f with th- Act of Congress of March .'. Is79. EDITORIALS THE SUREST WAY It mijrht be appropriate, at this time of the year, when many vountr people of Cass County are finishincr their high school edu-i-ations. to su truest to them that most of the people in the world who amount to any thing work hard for what they acquire. Too often, the youthful mind is im pressed with the easy accumulation of a fortune bv some exceptional figure that looms in the public consciouness. little rea lizing that such a career is the great excep tion among the mass of hard workers who get to the ton by sheer diligence and per sistence, rather than through some streak of luck or opportunity. Mire and more, there is abroad in the world a conviction that individuals who do not earn what they have are not entitled to their possessions. The thought is not so far wrong-. If every youngster who begins a busi ness life in the next ten years gets thor ouehly imbued with the idea of giving value for money or rewards received, the business world will not have to worrv too much about the next depression and the chances are that the neople of the coming fonerati in will find life a happier proposi tion. -k JUNK STUFF AS NEWS The newspapers have recently given ropious snace to renorts about an alleered brawl between an "heiress" and her hus band but just why anybodv should think that millions of people in the United States are interested in the details of the affa'r escapes us. If the press associations want to go in fir reporting brawls, they can pick out bloodier and nastier ones. Thev might lark the alleged "glamor" of an "heiress" which seems to be the prime essential these davs of a series of telegraphic news dis patches but thev could more than make un for this lack of presenting more artistic refinements to the brawling art. Much the same comment applies to a recent special feature article fnm New York telling the world what five holmes think about the United. Nations. Who cares? It might pass as a bright idea among the journalistic boys, to narrate the expressions of the hoboes, but the reader . who has any brains recognizes the stuff as trine. After all. if the impressions and reac tions of the hoboes are so important, why not let the hoboes write a regular news paper column? It couldn't be any worse ; than some now being peddled around the countrv and printed. PROFIT FROM THE BIBLE "Do vou read the Dible?" . This Question, asked in a crowd, would produce interesting replies if the truth were told. Thre are some people in Cass County -. who think themselves "superior," because ' thev place scant reliance upon the book , which is still the world's best seller. Thev ffancv an independent aloofness but, in 'realitv, there must be some other explana tion for their failure to give the Word of ;Ciod a trial on its merits. Anv number of our best citizens can. and will, testifv to the great influence this "book has exerted unin their lives. Thev know that its study has brought them val ues, not equalled bv any other publication. J As a matter of selfish "profit," basing their testimony solelv upon "returns." they will Sutter thanksgiving for their Bible-reading .habit. - -c M memqryianF TEN YEARS AGO Russel Jensen. WJAG radio announcer pr Norfolk visited his aunts, Mrs. Fritz Furse's Fresh Flashes When a local sales clerk up the street .asked a gentleman customer if she could interest him in a bathing suit, he replied. "You certainly could baby, but we'll have to be careful, my wife's over at the glove counter." - About the most difficult thing about driving a motor car is meeting the monthly installments. About all Leap Year means to the aver age boy is one more day in school. V That father of quads back in the Bronx should have cautioned his wife to start in a small wav. M This country now has so many filling stations it's possible to fuel all the people at the same time. k -k The naval research laboratory reveals that the planet we live on has a tail. That probably makes us the fleas. We want to be sure you have heard about the Scotchman who gave his rirl a watch case for Christmas. Next Christ mas he plans on giving her the works. - Give a beggar a donation each week for three months and he will think you are a thief if you stop the dole; the same reason ing applies to extending assistance to some nations. Ac -k If you want a place in the sun, you'd better expect to get a lot of blisters. Kemember when Bureaus were just! pieces of furniture. "LEAVE ME NOT HOPELESS" THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. May 2G, 1949 PAGE ONE asmn gton IT" Kaffenberger. Mrs. John Wehrbein and Mrs. Harry White . . . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Starkjohn entertained at a steak fry at the summer camp located near the Platte bot toms northwest of the city . . . Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson of Lincoln, former residents here, annnuneed tht annroaehinor marriairp of their daughter. Marie, to Melvin Stock-' to" of Seminole, Oklahoma . . . Dr. G. H. j Gilmore acted as guide to a partv of fifty people interested in research of Nebraska both natural and piliticalon a tour of his torical sites in Cass County . . . Miss Mar- garet Greer of the Alvo-Greenwood vicinity departed for New York to embark on the Queen Mary for a visit to her native coun try Ireland. k -k -k TWF.NTY YEARS AGO Miss Helen Wurl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Wurl, graduated from Univer sity of Nebraska . . . R. F. Patterson was orator for the graduation class of Elmwood schools . . . The Leosis cafe opened for business on North Sixth Street . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edgar Cook. Alvo. announced the engagement of their 'daughter, Alice Meredith, to George A. Rprnemeier of Elm wood . . . Mothers of Mynard graduates of P. IL S. entertained scholars and faculty at a banouet at the community hall. Mrs. G. A. Weaver and Mrs. E. II. Spangler assisted . . . Miss Percy Alice Meisinger and Conlev H. Bailey were married at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Meisinger Jr., on May 23rd. Efts BE3IW 60" K8HMD (CoDvrieht. 1949. Bv the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SEN. VANDENBERG URGES CON CILIATION WITH RUSSIA; SENA TORS CAUTION ACHESON AGAINST REBUILDING GERMAN INDUSTRY; FDR JR.'S BITTER OPPONENT HOPS ON HIS BAND WAGON. WASHINGTON. Before Secretary of State Acheson left for Paris, he stopped by Capitol Hill for some last-mir.ute, parting advice, which will shed light on some of the policies the United States will 'follow at the Big Four conference. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan cau tioned the Secretary of State against taking too stern a stand with the Russians. He agreed we mustn't give ground or show signs of appeasement, but at the same time he urged keeping an open mind to any honest peace overtures. His attitude was that we shouldn't "burn the last bridge." Two big questions came up during the hour-long, closed-door conference; 1. How far should we go in conciliat ing Russia? 2. Where should we draw the line on German recovery? Senator Thomas of Utah was blunt and to the point about rebuilding Germany. "Is there any feeling anywhere," he asked, "that we should rearm Germany as a buff er against Russia?" Acheson assured not, but Thomas kept hammering this point home. He warned that Germany, when she gets her strength back, might side with Russia; that Ger many has closer ties to the east than the west: that the Germans even startpH re building their army and navy across the ! Russian border after World War I. Thousands of Germans ac tually worked inside Russia un til Hitler bit the hand that was helping him, Thomas recalled. WATCHING GERMAN FACTORIES Senator Lodge of Massachu setts argued that we should strengthen Germany's economy without building up her war making capacity. To prevent a resurrection of German military power, he demanded that Ache son insist upon a close watch on Germany's forces and factories. The Secretary of State prom ised this would be done. He added that Russia would have nothing to say abort the Ruhr, since she got nothing from the Ruhr in peacetime. "What do you mean by Rus sia?" Senator Thomas broke in. "If you mean the satellite states, then Russia has all the interest in the world in the Ruhr." Central European countries, now behind the Iron Curtain, he added, always did a big business with the Ruhr, which would give Russia a voice in deciding the fate of the Ruhr. Acheson and Vandenberg also engaged in a brief dispute over whether the right-of-way to Ber lin had been definitely spelled out in the Potsdam agrpement. Vandenberg argued that it hadn't been put in "contractual form." and urged the Secretary of State to see that our richi-of-way to Berlin is now made clear at Paris. FDR. JR. "GOING PLACES" No one fought the election of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.. harder than Vito Marcantonio. sole American Labor representative in coneress. The bouncing, brill iant legislator from Manhattan stumped the twentieth district, trving to defeat the namesake of the late FDR. But after it was all over and th1 votes showed young Roose velt to be the overwhelming vic tor. Congressman Marcantonio met Congressman Chet Hoii field nf California on the floor of the Ho'ise. Quoth he: "Yon want to eet a hoard vih Franklin Roosevelt. He's really goinc places." Note Younor Roosevelt's vic tory in New York will be a hie "svcholoeical boost to his eidr brother in California where Jim mie plans to run for governor. CIO IIOUSECLEANING CIO President PhiliD Murrav's attack on communists and fel low travelers last week was even touaher than appeared in the paners. It was so devastating that the communist partv-liners were thrown into comDlete confusion and. at one noin Ben GoM. president of the left-wing Fur Workers imion. hcame so dis eusted with his fellow leftist he 'ent out for r round of drinks Returning. Gold stood un nnd denounced Harry Bridges, shout-in- "T know the narty line just as well as vou do." At another noint M"rrav ad ministered the crowmn? hioif With an eye at the New York trial of communist leaders wherein the Justice department revs produced scores of commu nists who were actually govern ment a?ents. Mnrrv arose and asV-ori he commie faction: "How many of you are really FBI agents?" j RFC PROBE ! Arkansas' hard-working Sena i tor William Fulbright, chairman ; of a banking and currency sub ; committee, will make a sweep ing probe of certain officials of the Reconstruction Finance Cor , poration who were given plush jobs with business firms shortly after these firms got loans from the RFC. Fulbright is chiefly interested in John Hagertv. former head of . the Boston RFC office, who got a S30,000-a-year job with the ' Walt ham watch company after i he helped the company get a big ' Government loan. He is also in terested in Sterling Foster, form er RFC Washington official, who got an SIS.OOO-a-year job under similar circumstances from the Plywood Plastics corporation of Hamnton. S. C. RFAL ESTATE LOP.IIY Between 1.500 and 2.000 mem- , bers of the real estate lobbv have invaded Washington for the big qesr fight asainst the public housing bill since the famous nowr-trust battle against the ho'ding company act. Heaviest pressure will be exert ed on southern Democrats, whom . the lobbv has been trying to, "soften up" with full-page ads in local newsoaners and a flood of lohbv-inspired letters and tele grams. No pressure is necessary against the Republicans, whose leaders have evolved a secret strategy for killing housing. No longer will ev-Sneaker Joe Mar tin and Char'ie Halleek of Indi ana charge that public housing is "socialistic," but rather that i shonM not be pasd "riht now" Economy will be the theme-song. TTnweve poiit tvntv nro gressive Republicans, mindf"1 of; navtv platform 'which pledged support for the housing nrorra-i. plnn to denounce the eoHor.shio if necessary. Vole nctnolH' the housipT nro"Tm would cost toss per vir than thra prvato snhsidv nrnTini Tr-v,irn te farm lohHf ic so ?iT- inns to l-fPn. Pnl-si'j;-"'n(r tr. posts over a million dollars a day. NEB RA Oil) SKA PnrMonH Or. I'.!m'".'i,vi tv, in-ino-nra ion of dir--t airline flights from the Pacific Ncr'h west to Honolulu, dav-old chicks ; from Oregon now are being : shipped by air directly to Haw aiian poultry farmers. , by JAMES C OLSON, Superintendent STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY In these degenerate days, Ne braska's fishing grounds must be stocked regularly if the state's anglers ore going to en joy any sport at ali. In okI Ne braska, though, the fishing was fine and with benefit of hauls, hatcheries and closed seasons. Many of the diaries kept, by explorers, soldiers, traders .and emigrants tell of days spent fishing in Nebraska's streams. It was a favorite amusement on Sundays, and at all other times when rest rather than travel was the order of the day. But for those early Nebras kans. fishing was much more than amusement. It was a met.!ii of securing fresh food, and pro viding a welcome supplement to the standard diet of bacon, beans and coffee. On military expeditions, soldiers frequently were assigned to fishing detail: and the Mormons organized committees to fish the rivers to provide food for the destitute. Considerable ingenuity was used in catching fish. The seine was a favorite device, although scoops and baskets also were used. The story is told of a group of trappers who, having gone some time without food, found a large safety pin in one of their blankets. . They quickly bent the pin into a hook and braided a line of hair taken from the hoses' tails, with the result that they soon had a pan full of fresh fish, plus an ad- ditional supply for future use. Probably one of the first fish stories to come out of Nebraska is that recorded in the journal of Lewis and Clark who ascend ed the Missouri River in 1804. On August 15, at a camp just north of the Omaha village, they dragged a small creek dammed by beaver, catching "318 fish of different kind . . . Pike, Bass, Salmon, perch, red horse, small cat, and a kind of perch Call Silver fish, on the Ohio." Captain Clark, whose spelling is wonderful to behold, also re ported that he caught "a Srimp TTIGHLIGHT of the week in Wash ir.gton was the dramatic defeat of the Truman adminis tration on labor legislation and the possibility which now looms that there, may be no replacement of the Taft-Hartley act. Administration leaders, in a face-saving device, did muster three more than enough votes to recom mit the Woods bill, but that did not whitewash Uie enormity of the de feat on the one-measure most def initely promised by President Tru man and the Democratic platform; namely, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. There are all sorts of stories going around that in the meantime the administration will crack the whip on the recalcitrant southern Dem ocrats who teamed up with Repub licans in the house to scuttle the ad ministration labor program. Observ ers, however, can see nothing that the president can do insofar as the southerners are concerned to dis cipline them either in the matter of patronage or purging. In the meantime, Sen. Robert A. Taft, co-author of the controversial Taft-Hartley act, is .ringing in a new labor bill of his own which is the Taft-Hartley act all over with some amendments that he admits are necessary to improve the law and make It more equitable, insofar as labor Is concerned. Also in the meantime, the perennial, or annual, coal'strike to be called by John L. Lewis looms In the offing this sum mer and there promises to be a se ries of nation-wide strikes in the big unions as retaliation against their defeat at the hands of congress. The other highlight of the week was the testimony before the acricnltnral committees of farm leaders on the program of Secretary Brannan for agricul ture. None of the farm leaders that is, except James G. Tatton of the National Fanners Union endorsed the Brannan plan. Tat ton told the house committee that the Brannan plan is "sound" and "statesman-like" and that it is "h? far the best of the general alternatives before congress." He even aaid that in giving special consideration to the family-type farm as distin guished from "large farms" that it did not go far enough. Allan Kline of the Farm Bureau federation and Albert Goss of the National Grange declared their op position to the program. Kline was inclined to string along with the Hope-Aiken law now on the statute books and Go.ss had a plan of l is own, proposing a commission or board with authority to tell the sec retary of agriculture how to admin ister the act with reference to each single commodity. He approved ctfi the Brannan approach, however. There were some observers who charged that the farm leaders were attempting to "bury their heads iii the sand" with reference to the tub sidy that the present price sup port method was nothing more nor less than a subsidy, which the con sumers paid for twice and that un der the Brannan plan of direct sub sidies to the farmer on the differ ence between the market price ar.d the parity price, the consumers only paid for the subsidy once, reaping the benefit of lower market prices. One observer described the Brannan plan thus: Under the present law the government is committed to keeping farm prices high by buying: and lend ing so prices will stay up. It amounts to an indirect subsidy financed by the taxpayers' money. Then when the taxpay ers go to the store to buy food they pay once again in the form of higher prices that are subsi dized by their tax money. Under the Brannan plan the govern ment would not prop up prices In the market and would let the market price be set by the law of supply and demand. At the same time, the government would set a fair price which the farmer ought to get for his produce to make a fair profit. If the mar ket price were below the fair price, the government pays the farmer the difference, which is a direct subsidy paid only by taxes, but not by taxes and high prices too. There is some inclination on the part of congress to let Secretary) Brannan try out his plan of direct ' subsidy this summer on hogs and, maybe, milk. Whether that feeling Is widespread enough to enact the ' program into law, however, is prob lematical. It may be included as r.n amendment to the Hope-Aiken law. Mr. Kline, of the farm bureau, submitted figures on fluid milk sub sidy under the Brannan plan which were challenged by the way. This in dicated it would cost the taxpayers approximately $2,480,000,000 annu ally for the milk ubsidy alone. Sup porters of the Brannan plan say the j cost will not run nearly tliat high. prosisely of Shape Size &: flav our of those about N. Orleans and the lower part of the Miss issippi." The next day their luck was even better as they caught " up wards of 809 fine fish, 79 Pike. 8 salmon resembling Trout . . .. 1 Rock, l flat Back. 127 Buffal ow and red horse 4 Bass and 490 Cats, with many Small Silv er fish." Outdoor Farm for Sale Bardwell, Ky. u.R The Car lisle County News, published here, carried a classified ad vertisement offering for sale what was described as the "best farm out of doors." GOES TO KANSAS Richard Quinnett. one of th members of the 1949 graduating class of the Plattsmouth high school, departed Monday for Grainfield. Kansas, where he will visit at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gale Blank. He is planning to spend the summer mere, and with Mr. Blank, will follow the wheat harvest through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, operating a rig for the harvest. The fur seal herd on the Pri bilof Islands contains more than 3,380.000 animals. Bargain No Bargain Lexington, Ky. 0J.P' The man ' ager of a drug store here could n't figure out why peoipe were n't snapping up his bargain on ; two packs of cigarettes. Then : he found the answer. The spec ial offer had been: "18 cents a i pack two for 37." Rwl brain budge? 1. Admiral Alan G. Kirk's Immediate predecessor as United States ambassador to Soviet Russia is (a) William C. Bullitt, (b) Joseph E. Davies. (c) Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. 2. The religious sect which has the biggest membership Is (a) Mohammedan, (b) Hindu, (c) Roman Catholic 3. Thailand is the name formerly used for (a) Siam, fb) Iran, (c) Ethiopia. 4. The "Cracker states" are (a) Tennessee and Kentucky, () Florida and Georgia, (c) Arkansas and Louisiana, 5. The nationality of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prise, was (a) Dutch, (b) Swedish, (c) Canadian. k ANSWERS 1. () Cm. Walter Bdc!1 South. 2. (c) Roman Catholic JJS milliea. 3. (a) Sum. 4. (b) Florida aad Georgia. 3. (b) SvocGth. 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